Wednesday

Starbuck's at Clybourn & Webster - Chicago, Illinois

Received Wednesday, September 1, 2010 Starbuck's Clybourn & Webster 8/30/10 10:15 a.m. Nanny is an older hispanic woman with either her own son/grandson (7 years?) little boy is 3ish, Superman shirt w/red shorts light brown longish hair, darkish sneakers. First, she spilled her hot coffee all over the boy's shorts bc she wasn't watching what she was doing, then she scolded HIM for it, was very impatient with him in general and would "text" without paying any attention to the boy whatsoever. But, she seemed to enjoy her breakfast. I am a mom. I wouldn't pay her to do the lousy job she is doing.

I dont know if it's fake or not but it honestly doesn't sound like it may be the worst sighting. She shouldnt have been so short with the child and paid more attention to him but it sounds like she may have just had a really bad morning. We've all been there. This isn't ideal but it's not abusive either.

Oh Futility,We are so happy to have you here as a daily reader. Thank you for all your words of wisdom and the beautiful drawings of doves you keep emailing in. I regret that at this time, I don't have a format in which to utilize your acrylic art.

This post could be true. Here in Boston/Cambridge I see lots of nannies with their own children and charges during school vacations and summer. Some families are understanding and allow them to tag along once in awhile for a lower rate. It's easier then finding a sub, if the nanny needed to watch her own children.

I'm hispanic and the way the nanny's reaction is pretty typical for an older hispanic woman. Its more of a cultural thing...it's hard to explain but if your Hispanic you'd know what i'm talking about.

Also both children could have been related to the woman, its called interracial relationships. My cousins are 50% irish and 50% hispanic and to someone not hispanic they would look like 100% little irish babies. kind of like thinking someone half black and white is hispanic.

why are we reporting incidents with parents? isn't the point of this site for parents to see if their nanny is caught doing something bad??? what is the parent supposed to look at the site and be like "wow I should fire myself"

She calls the woman a nanny and then says she has her own child/grandchild, age 7, with her, plus the 3 year old boy. What is so hard about that to figure out? There are two children present in this post. Who's to say how they are really related to her (or not) but the OP was clear on there being two children...one assumed to be the "nanny's" child, the other her charge.

Costanza, everyone makes mistakes. I think you'll be forgiven, though this board has been tough these days. I've seen innocent questions with simple answers destroyed by people whose intentions seem to be taking out their frustrations on people. Yes, it happened to me...in case you couldn't tell, lol.

This is probably a reason, if not the main reason, that people don't post. I LOVE hunting for CL-WTFs, but people get so nasty, I don't even bother anymore, to be honest. I've seen nanny 'sightings' and have been reluctant to post because people are just so nasty that it's not even worth it. It's sad. And I know I'm not the only one who feels this way.

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